Sustainability Blog

By Hannah West As we are better learning to harness the vast supply of energy that beams down on us every day, a wider range of solar po...

Many people are aware these days of how far their food travels, becoming less fresh and using up petroleum to get to their table. The Suncur...

PG&E has agreed to buy electricity from start-up Solaren . PG&E buys electricity from many sources. What's new here, is that Sol...

The new Brower Center  just down the road from me is an amazing new development with an astonishing percentage of salvaged and recycled part...

The folks who come out to your house and install solar panels are called "solar integrators." We design custom systems from modula...

A huge volume of our nation's green waste is from trees, taken from populated areas, felled and shredded. Some quick searching led me to...

When I wonder if I'm still following my calling (as it becomes easier, and familiar, I have to find a compass other than "is this t...

Here's a tidbit of information that could make a difference of a couple of hundred dollars or more, courtesy of the best solar installer...

In using the tools of a trade that require the photographer's head to be aligned with the earth's rotational axis, perhaps we see th...

I just received this testimonial from a client who is an accountant: While I am proud that I am doing my part to help the environment by pro...

I'm a bit suspicious that PG&E and other utilities are urging a "No" vote on Prop 7, while "three Nobel prize winning...

Wow, thanks for all the great comments! Let's see if I can wrangle some of them. Tim Prosser's numbers are pessimistic. Generally th...

Whew! I've been getting large amounts of information pressed into my gray matter as I learn how to do my new job. I have a couple of rol...

I'm cautiously optimistic as I learn a bit about the Federal PV rebates that were extended and expanded as part of the $700B bailout. I...

Suppose you bought your Prius a few years ago, after running the numbers and projecting that if gasoline did in fact ever cost more than $4 ...